PESHAWAR: Five terrorists were killed as the Pakistan Army repulsedmultiple cross-border attacks and fire raids on its posts along thePak-Afghan border area in the North Waziristan Agency on Friday, accordingto the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).link#_>

“Terrorists from across the Pak-Afghan border attempted multiple physicaland fire raids on the Pakistan Army posts in Shawal, North WaziristanAgency,” the ISPR said in a statement. The security forces valiantlyrepulsed all attempts to overrun posts and inflicted major damage onterrorists.

During the exchange of fire, three Pakistan Army soldiers also embracedmartyrdom. The martyrs included Havaldar Iftikhar, a resident of Sargodha,Sepoy Aftab from Chitral and Sepoy Usman, resident of Gujarat.

The cross-border attacks by terrorists came two days after the killing ofbanned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah in a USdrone strike in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. Fazlullah was killed alongwith four other commanders in a US drone strike in Kunar on June 13.

The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Afghan Ministry of Defence and Talibansources confirmed the killing of Fazlullah and four other commanders inKunar. The Afghan president made a phone call to Chief of the Army Staff(COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa to share the news of killing of MullahFazlullah.